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Read Full Chapter (Ecclesiastes 3) Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 KJV
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."
Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, Verse 1-8
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 in Context (Verses 1–11 KJV)
1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;*
3
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
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A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;*
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A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;*
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A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
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I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
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He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.